Events that changed the world

Straight from the National Archives, Topic Entertainment presents a four-hour collection of audio footage that forever changed the course of American history. Here, listeners are treated to a plethora of historic moments, including interviews and news reports concerning the JFK assassination, the Hi...

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Corporate Authors: United States. National Archives and Records Administration.
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: Renton, WA : Topics Entertainment, 2008.
Series: History in words from the National Archives
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Table of Contents:
  • CD 1.
  • Thomas Alva Edison on the Future of Electricity (1908).
  • "Remarks to the Peary Arctic Club on Discovery of the North Pole (1909).
  • Eyewitness Account of the Sinking of the H.M.S. Titanic (1935).
  • My Spiritual Message (1925).
  • First Official Transatlantic Phone Conversation (1927).
  • Amelia Earhart's Speech "My Belief in Age of Flight" (1935).
  • Eyewitness Account of the Hindenburg Disaster (1937).
  • CD 2.
  • The Launch of Sputnik (1957).
  • First Primates in Space (1959).
  • Live Polio Vaccine Developed (1959).
  • Is There Life on Other Worlds? (1960).
  • President John F. Kennedy's Address on Moon Exploration (1962).
  • CD 3.
  • Lady Bird Johnson's Account of the Kennedy Assassination (1963).
  • Story of Interferon (1965).
  • Glenn Seaborg on the 25th Anniversary of the Discovery of Plutonium (1966).
  • CD 4.
  • LBJ Addresses the Nation after the Shooting of Robert Kennedy(1968).
  • Jim Lovell's Description from Apollo 8 of the "Vast Loneliness of the Moon" (1968).
  • "One Small Step" Apollo 11 Landing on the Moon (1969).
  • Apollo 13 - "Houston, We Have a Problem" (1970).
  • Address to the Nation on the Challenger Disaster (1986).